Senate Bill 385
Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act
Topics: Collective bargaining, Public employee, School: Employee, Teacher: Contract
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Nov 9, 2009
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Committee
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Public hearing
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Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
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Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Under the Municipal Employment Relations Act, in local government employment other than law enforcement and fire fighting, if a dispute relating to the terms of a proposed collective bargaining agreement has not been settled after a reasonable period of negotiation and after mediation by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC), either party, or the parties jointly, may petition WERC to initiate compulsory, final, and binding arbitration with respect to any dispute relating to wages, hours, and conditions of employment. An arbitrator's decision is then incorporated into the collective bargaining agreement. In reaching a decision, the arbitrator must give weight to factors. Unless the decision involves a collective bargaining unit consisting of school district employees, the arbitrator must give the greatest weight to any state law or directive that places expenditure or revenue limitations on an employer and must give greater weight to economic conditions in the jurisdiction of the employer than to other factors. For decisions involving a collective bargaining unit consisting of any municipal employees the arbitrator has to give weight to various factors including the authority of the municipal employer; the interests and welfare of the public and the ability of the unit of government to meet the costs of the proposed agreement; comparison of wages, hours, and conditions of employment with those of other employees; and the cost of living. This bill eliminates this distinction between school district employees and other municipal employees, so that, for a decision involving a collective bargaining unit consisting of school district employees as well as for a collective bargaining unit consisting of other municipal employees, the arbitrator must give the greatest weight to the factors given the greatest weight under current law to all municipal employees except school district employees and must give greater weight to the factors given greater weight under current law to all municipal employees except school district employees.
Who's behind it
10 senators are its . 9 are Republicans and 1 is a Democrat.
30 more lawmakers .
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Authors (10)
- Alan Lasee · Republican, Senate
- Rob Cowles · Republican, Senate
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Glenn Grothman · Republican, Senate
- Sheila Harsdorf · Republican, Senate
- Neal Kedzie · Republican, Senate
- Mary Lazich · Republican, Senate
- Joe Leibham · Republican, Senate
- Luther S. Olsen · Republican, Senate
- Jim Sullivan · Democrat, Senate
Signed on in support (30)
- Alvin Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Joan Ballweg · Republican, Senate
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Brett Davis · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Gottlieb · Republican, Assembly
- Scott Gunderson · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Honadel · Republican, Assembly
- Michael Huebsch · Republican, Assembly
- Jim Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Samantha Kerkman · Republican, Assembly
- Steve Kestell · Republican, Assembly
- Dan Knodl · Republican, Assembly
- Daniel LeMahieu · Republican, Assembly
- Thomas Lothian · Republican, Assembly
- Mary Williams · Republican, Assembly
- Dan Meyer · Republican, Assembly
- Phil Montgomery · Republican, Assembly
- Steve Nass · Republican, Senate
- Lee Nerison · Republican, Assembly
- John Nygren · Republican, Assembly
- Kevin Petersen · Republican, Assembly
- Jerry Petrowski · Republican, Senate
- Kitty Rhoades · Republican, Assembly
- Keith Ripp · Republican, Assembly
- Pat Strachota · Republican, Assembly
- Scott Suder · Republican, Assembly
- John Townsend · Republican, Assembly
- Karl Van Roy · Republican, Assembly
- Robin Vos · Republican, Assembly
- Bob Ziegelbauer · Independent, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Nov 19, 2009
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Nov 9, 2009
Sent to the Senate Committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs.
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Nov 9, 2009
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Nov 9, 2009 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Grothman, Olsen, Darling, Cowles, Harsdorf, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham and Sullivan;Cosponsored by Representatives Gottlieb, Davis, Ballweg, Brooks, Gunderson, Honadel, Huebsch, Kerkman, Kestell, Knodl, LeMahieu, Lothian, Meyer, Montgomery, Nass, Nerison, Nygren, A. Ott, J. Ott, Petersen, Petrowski, Rhoades, Ripp, Strachota, Suder, Townsend, Van Roy, Vos, M. Williams and Ziegelbauer
- Nov 9, 2009 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs
- Nov 19, 2009 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 28, 2010 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate